Posts with the tag "Lake George"

As a kid I tried out a lot of different hobbies before finding something I liked enough to stick with. Legos, Etch-a-Sketch, binge drinking – none did it for me. Thankfully I found disc golf, and my life hasn’t been the same since.

But not all kids like Frisbees. Some prefer boomerangs. Or womanizing. Or Elvis.

Some really like Elvis. Some like him so much that they spend their free time dressing up and singing sort of like the King (for the record, I’ve never dressed as, or sang like, a Frisbee). Handshake spent a couple days with a half dozen little Elvi at the Lake George Elvis Festival in Lake George, NY. You have to really like your hobby to travel across the country or an international border to do it. And you have to have a really loving family, or an insane stage mom, to ferry you around to these gigs. Here’s a Handshaketribute to the dedicated kids.

Check our full story on these Kid Kings in the September issue of Handshake magazine.

As a kid I tried out a lot of different hobbies before finding something I liked enough to stick with. Legos, Etch-a-Sketch, binge drinking – none did it for me. Thankfully I found disc golf, and my life hasn’t been the same since.

But not all kids like Frisbees. Some prefer boomerangs. Or womanizing. Or Elvis.

Handshake writer Matt Millham and Photographer Renée Stevens went to Lake George, N.Y. to chat with some miniature Elvises in between performances. These little guys will make your Grandma weak in the knees. Check out Millham’s story on the event in the September issue of Handshake.

Saturday morning cartoons lost a bit of their luster today. Instead of crashing out in front of the TV with a box of Lucky Charms, Handshake got up early to watch a parade of vehicle-borne Elvis impersonators roll down Lake George, NY’s main drag. Most of those who got up to watch the parade with us were old enough to have seen the King live. Unfortunately, we haven’t been around that long.